2-547: The Cult Information Centre ( CIC ) is a British anti-cult organisation. The organisation also serves as a resource for information on controversial religious groups, therapy cults , and political cults . The Cult Information Centre was founded in 1987 by Ian Haworth , who had previously been involved with the Council on Mind Abuse, and gained charitable status in the United Kingdom in 1992. John Campbell of
4-548: The evangelical Christian group, the Jesus Army , called the Cult Information Centre "unethical" and its views "absolute nonsense". William Shaw contacted the Cult Information Centre in his 1993 investigation of cults, and was explicitly critical of its methods and the reliability of its research throughout his book. His opinion was that individuals had joined cults out of "their own hunger to believe" and
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